I think they should teach assembly in parrallel but I disagree with the evolution you're suggestion. High level languages are expressing informational logic th

I think they should teach assembly in parrallel but I disagree with the evolution you're suggestion. High level languages are expressing informational logic that actually can have nothing to do with computers, formally. The way that the language maps to assembly, memory, cpus etc. is obviously incredibly important, but that's crossing a major boundary of abstraction. Assembly is an under the hood implementation detail to quite a lot of CS work. That said - of course it has to be taught - but I actually don't believe it's a 'precursor'. That's just how computers evolved. Imagine a day in 50 years when we switch to Quantum computers. Maybe 'assembly' will be something completely different then.